An international team of researchers has used the world's most powerful X-ray laser to take snapshots of free molecules. The research team headed by Prof. Jochen Küpper of the Hamburg Center for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) ...
An international team of scientists led by physicists from the University of York has paved the way for a new class of magnetic materials and devices with improved performance and power efficiency. Magnetic materials are currently used to ...
Vishay Intertechnology Inc of Malvern, PA, USA has broadened its optoelectronics portfolio with the release of a 850nm infrared (IR) emitter in a compact 3.85mm by 3.85mm by 2.24mm top-view SMD package. Based on SurfLight surface-emitter ...
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Diamonds may be a girl's best friend,but they could also one day help us understand how the brain processes information,thanks to a new sensing technique developed at MIT. A team in MIT's Quantum Engineering Group has developed a new ...
The brain is a reclusive organ. Neurons the cells that make up the brain, nerves, and spinal cord communicate with each other using electrical pulses known as action potentials, but their interactions are complicated and hard to understand. ...
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Scientists have developed an acoustic lens that produces pressure pulses that are so intense they're called "sound bullets." Although they are too high-pitched to be audible to the human ear, the sound bullets could have a variety of uses ...
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Food products supplier Alliance Grain Traders (AGT) has completely acquired Canada-based retail food packaging firm CLIC International. The transaction includes CLIC's inventory, retail packaging and canning production equipment. It also ...
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Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have demonstrated broadband terahertz (THz) wave generation using metamaterials. The discovery may help develop noninvasive imaging and sensing, and make possible THz-speed ...
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Devastating supervolcanoes can erupt simply due to changes that happen in their giant magma chambers as they slowly cool, according to a new study. This finding marks the first time researchers have been able to explain the mechanism behind ...
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A special crop, pulse and canola processor has signed a major delivery contract, thanks to its trucking capabilities. Pacific Coast Canola (PCC), a Seattle, Washington-based subsidiary of Legumex Walker Inc. (which is headquartered in ...
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Almost one in 10 people will someday experience a kidney stone, which creates what is described as the most intense pain imaginable. This increasingly common condition leads to hundreds of thousands of surgeries in the United States each ...
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Women who completed therapy experienced significant improvement in urinary incontinence, defecatory dysfunction and pelvic pain One in three women suffer from pelvic floor dysfunction (PFD), a range of symptoms which include bladder and ...
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Pulses have captured the attention of the United Nations. The UN General Assembly voted to declare 2016 as the "International Year of Pulses." "This is an extraordinary opportunity for the global pulse industry" declared Gordon Bacon, CEO ...
An international team of astronomers using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) has discovered a pulsar that is orbited by two white dwarf stars. Pulsars are rapidly rotating neutron stars that can be used like precision astronomical clocks. This ...
Astronomers using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope (GBT) have discovered a unique stellar system of two white dwarf stars and a superdense neutron star, all packed within a space smaller than Earth's orbit around the ...
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